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Were People In the Medieval Period Clean or Not?

posted on : February 6, 2020 posted by : nicolvalentin 0 Comment

Dirty bodies, rotting teeth, soiled clothes; if these are the things that come to mind when you think of hygiene in the Middle Ages, think again. Dirt was far from fashionable. People might not have been slathering hand sanitizer on…

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The Role of Fate in the Medieval World

posted on : December 29, 2019 0 Comment

Fate, luck, destiny, providence; all words to describe the unseen power that seems to control our life events. Who you believe is the unseen power differs in this day and age. In the Middle Ages, however, everyone was pretty much…

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A Primer on Keeping Warm in the Medieval Period

posted on : December 11, 2019 4 Comments

Modern life tends to go on as usual despite shifting temperatures, but what about people in the medieval period? How did the weather affect them, and how did they manage to keep warm? Keeping warm, Medieval style You might…

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King Arthur, Excalibur, and an Italian Saint

posted on : April 11, 2019 0 Comment

One night in the year 1180 in a little town outside Siena, a knight by the name of Galgano Guidotti had a dream in which the mighty Archangel Michael came to visit him. “Now see here Galgano,” Michael said…